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Show PACIFIC COAST NEM'S. CALIFOHMA. Petaluma wants a woolen mill. lo Los Anceies ihe raiot'ill has been a little over eight inches. A Napa county boy killed 16.) linnets lin-nets ai one shot and 2-k'S in five shots more. The machinery of the Barnard woolen mill at Los Aogefes is now aJ on the spot and ieaiy to be put ap. The treasurer of the Stockton and Tuiare narrow gance railroad reports that neariy all toe first ten per cent, is paid in. There are two stage lines between Sania Cruz and Watsonville and the rivalry has become so strong that, both carry passengers for twenty-five cents. Petaiunia's hearse has beeQ lurtiish-cd lurtiish-cd with new plumes, and the people are anxious for somebody to die, so that the can see how those new plumes look. iuder Miles Grant ia going to have a theological fight with the Sacramento iyceum, and ia anxious for somebody ele to tread on his oratorical coat-tails. coat-tails. A man in Grass valley has undertaken under-taken to do the praying tor that place, and the people are so sinful that he don't get time to eat or sleep, but just keeps praying all the time. A Sacramento man went out hunting recently and stripped off his trowser& to get a shot bird which had fallen into the water. He got the bird and got to shore just in time to see his faithful dog running off with his trow-scrs. trow-scrs. lie walked into town looking like an ancient statue. AKVADA, The Belcher mining company declares de-clares a 3 dividend, payable yesterday. yester-day. This disburses $31:2,000 to the shareholders. Bevies of blooming, rosy-cheeked damsels, are having "gay old times" coasting, at Virginia. I Virginia city people are enjoying fine sleighing, but have to pay $lu an hour for a horse and sleigh. l'ioche, Nevada, laments because as yet its vigilance committee has had no chance to hang anybody. Some Chinamen at Carson having lost their money gambling concluded that the game was not "on the square," and alternated to retrievo their los.-es by making a raid on the bank. Io the row that followed two men were killed, one fatally, and one severely wounded. A Virginia, Ncv.,wifc gave her cood-looking cood-looking servant a holiday. Hearing her huabaud come into the kitchen, she slipped down, and put her hands over his eyes and kissed him. He kissed back with a vim she had not; witnessed in him for years, and aaid, "Mary, darling, where's your mistress?'' mis-tress?'' She dropped those hands and gave a war whoop and he departed io hasle, closely followed by a poker. He says that such deceptions on her part will, if continued, desiroy the mutual confidence that should exist between married folks. OREGON. Oregon denies having been subs'dized by the weevil bug. Twenty cases of nrasles are rep -rted at Dayton. The girln at Lfajelte minjgo lo get away with the boys at spelling. A bee tree wsts fuuud on the WiiL- uj.u.i nit? uiLLT uay, ironi wmun tne tinder cap'ured Li7u huadieds pounds of hon y. Two eoct'-iu.n from Victoria are now in Wa binir oa county purchasing a select lot of ea' ilc. Im;ss. shoep and swine to Dike to British Columbia. Alfred, oldest son of Henry Johnson, of Soap Creek precinct, Benton county, while chopping in the woods near his father's house last week, had his leg broken jut atmve the ancle by a large limb failing up.in it. 'Ihe- Miwuv amr ."W understand under-stand ibnt t bo capitol commis.-ioners will orirauizp at on no as a board and proceed itum dbuly to procure the necessary 'bus and specifications ; after which it i the ictcDii'?n to push the building ahead a? fast as practicable." practica-ble." A man named James Cla;k walked out at the window of a hot;l at Harris-burg Harris-burg a few nights ago and found that the platform on which he expected to step was not ti:cre, and he lit on ! ho sidewalk twelve feet below, receiving some severe but not fatal injuries. |
